Eclectic Wicca: A Guide for the Modern Witch (Eclectic Witch, Book on Witchcraft)

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Although different Wiccans attribute different traits to the Horned God, he is most often associated with animals and the natural world, but also with the afterlife, and he is furthermore often viewed as an ideal role model for men.

The Threefold Law was an interpretation of Wiccan ideas and ritual, made by Monique Wilson [84] and further popularised by Raymond Buckland, in his books on Wicca. It is nevertheless a common belief among Wiccans that human beings have a spirit or soul that survives bodily death. She suggested that this might be because Wicca's emphasis on a female divinity was more novel to people raised in Protestant-dominant backgrounds. Gardner claimed that the names of these deities were to be kept secret within the tradition, although in 1964 they were publicly revealed to be Cernunnos and Aradia; the secret Gardnerian deity names were subsequently changed.Originating in Britain, Wicca then spread to North America, Australasia, continental Europe, and South Africa. So, if you’re interested in becoming a Gardnerian Witch, then you’ll have to prepare yourself for a long initiation and, well, lots of nudity.

The 'witch-cult' theory had been first expressed by the German Professor Karl Ernest Jarcke in 1828, before being endorsed by German Franz Josef Mone and then the French historian Jules Michelet. The hearth witch strongly connects with nature as the green witch does, but the hearth witch focuses their magic indoors as the kitchen witch does.

Some accept the view espoused by the occultist Dion Fortune that "all gods are one god, and all goddesses are one goddess" – that is that the gods and goddesses of all cultures are, respectively, aspects of one supernal God and Goddess. Green witches respect nature above all else (although many other types of witches work with nature too! Gerald Gardner and the Witchcraft Revival: The Significance of His Life and Works to the Story of Modern Witchcraft. I am giving you mine to copy to get you started: as you gain experience discard those spells that don't work for you and substitute those that you have thought of yourselves. Traditional witches are those who practice ancestral magic instead of the modern approaches of the Wiccans.